Goodfellas Vs Real life | The DARK SECRET Behind the REAL Jimmy 'The Gent'

Goodfellas: The Dark Rise of the REAL Jimmy "The Gent" 🐺👀 The SECRET Behind Goodfellas…
Goodfellas, one of the most iconic mafia/gangster films EVER made. One of the stand out characters from the iconic film, “Goodfellas”, was suave Jimmy the gent Conway. We see him in the flashy suits, throwing money around and getting respect from everyone around him.

But what was he like in real life? Well, in many ways he was actually toned down for the film. His real life story was actually crazier than what we see on screen. Something quite rare. But how did it all begin? How did this Irishman end up working so closely with Cosa Nostra? Although not a made-man, he still enjoyed many of its benefits?
Ending up as one of the respected and feared men in the criminal underworld?
And how did it all actually end for “the gent”? To really understand this “complicated” character, we have to look at who he was before the glitz and glamour.

So join us as we discover the REAL story behind the infamous “Jimmy the gent” Burke.

𝑬𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 & 𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝒖𝒔 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌🔥

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Goodfellas is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is a film adaptation of the 1986 non-fiction book "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scorsese. The film showcases the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill (the first-person narrator in the film) and his friends over a period from 1955 to 1980. Goodfellas is often regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, both in the crime genre and in general. The film ranks #6 on "Empire" magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. In 2000, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress. But more importantly, it's a cult classic and a fan favourite.Its content and style have been emulated in numerous other films and television shows. Scorsese followed up making this film with two more about organized crime: Casino (1995) and The Departed (2006). Goodfellas, one of the most iconic mafia/gangster films EVER made. But How "Real" was Goodfellas? Were the characters lives that crazy??
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒔 & 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒔?

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[TheCultureMafia]

Got a controversial Question for You:
Is Goodfellas a "Better" Film than The Godfather?

Let's Get into it

[jimmyconway]

Jimmy killed his crew because they were spending a lot of money after the heist. He went to Paulie Vario and asked him if he could kill all the people involved with the heist mainly so he had more money to himself and Paulie.
Paulie gave Jimmy the OK and Jimmy killed his whole crew.

[shawnbbunbbbybbb]

Even though jimmy was an associate and couldn’t be made it didn’t matter because as an associate you’re basically as powerful as the guy u answer to and since jimmy answered to paulie by extension he had all the protection and authority of one of the most powerful captains in the lucchese family. As an associate if you’re a big earner and you’re bringing in a lot of money to powerful ppl u don’t need to be made because you’d still be practically untouchable and jimmy was making a ton of money for paulie so anybody that messed with jimmy would have to answer to paulie and by extension the boss of the lucchese family so in a sense jimmy was even more powerful and protected then some made men

[TooLooze]

How you managed to make this so unique is beyond me. Well done.

[chickenslice]

Great video. I like the explanation of how Jimmy as a non-Italian was able to maintain his near untouchable status. A couple other high ranking associates of the mafia were Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel. Also on a side note about Jimmy. Jimmy, as far as I know, was a sociopath, not a psychopath. Given his rough childhood trauma, he qualifies as a sociopath. Psychopaths are born, sociopaths are made.

[charliepalmer]

ALL of Scorsese's mob films are greatly toned down, and tell a fraction of the tale. In all fairness, he does the damn best he can with limited time.

[solidus]

This guy tells stories better than the old “Ten Commandments of the Mafia” documentary guy did.

[beltigussin]

Henry would have rat on Paul and Jimmie even if they didn't try to kill him. He was facing a lot of time. They read him right. He was arat

[pastordeniseearley]

This is one of the best Mafia videos. Love Culture Mafia🎉🎉❤

[Pubk]

I really enjoyed having Netflix try to convince me that Robert DiNero was Irish 😂

[jaakkosaha]

In Goodfellas, Jimmy seems very powerful despite the fact that he is not a made man. He has many Italians taking orders from him.

[crazyviking]

Henry Hill wrote about it in his book he co-wrote with Pileggi but I suspect that either Jimmy Burke used him as the scapegoat or Paul Vario simply used him as the scapegoat. It would not have mattered since Tommy was actually the weak link that tipped the cops off to who was responsible for the Lufthansa heist. But I don't know if the mob knew how much of a liability he was. Billy Batts also wasn't the only made man who Tommy had killed.

[propheci]

Great video, but as always. But i keep seeing people missuse that picture of "billy batts". That picture is Pasquale "pat the cat" Spirito, not William Devino, aka Billy Batts Bentvena. There are no known existing photos of Billy Batts...

[biglar]

Great Video Bro...Reminds me of being a kid on Long Island and hearing my grandpa and grandma talking about this when I was like 9

[randycunningham]

I think Deniro's performance is his best and maybe the best gangster performance ever.

[SteveDave]

Scorsese left many of the brutality and evil of these gangsters to make them more sympathetic and classy to keep the cool Italian gangsters likable. Even Pauly was as out of control as Pesci character.

[davidwood]

From David A. Wood: It is often asked whether "Goodfellas" is a better gangster film than "The Godfather." Because Martin Scorsese's 1990 film is based upon real-life incidents that occurred between the 1950s-1980s while Francis Ford Coppola's epic 1972 film, "The Godfather, " as memorably enjoyable and cinematically profound as it was/is, is entirely fictional, I, therefore, must err towards "Goodfellas" as being the superior gangster film. This is because "Goodfellas" was based upon the criminal exploits of actual people (Henry Hill, Paul Vario, James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, Tommy De Simone, , et.al), while "The Godfather, , " as compelling as it still is, was, like I previously stated, a fictional film that was based upon an equally fictional novel which imaginatively came from the head of Manhattan-born author Mario Puzo. Moreover, " Goodfellas" stated the truth in that New York City Organized Crime between the 1950s-1980s, and American Organized Crime in general, was not always strictly an Italian-American affair, as the odiously ethnic stereotype still aimed squarely at Italian-Americans would arrogantly indicate. For example, Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke were respectively of partial and full-blooded Irish-American ancestry. That is, while the American Mafia totally controlled urbanized, organized criminal affairs between the 1930s-1980s, the violently larcenous manpower used to perpetuate that.criminal subculture's grim reign of occasionally lethal illegality was not universally Italian-American. On the other hand, in trying to tell the story about an important period (late 1940s-middle 1950s) within the American Mafia's golden years dually through the eyes of a New York City Mob Family/ biological family, "The Godfather, " as imaginatively characterized and cinematically impressive though the film was/is, also accidentally kept alive the despicably wrongheaded impression that all Italian-American men were part and parcel of the American Mafia. This is an ethnic stereotype that is still unfortunately omnipresent during what is presently considered the American Mafia's irrevervisibly declining years. Now, onto my next paragraph.
Yet, without the presence of "The Godfather, " which happily revived the gangster film as an important genre in International Cinema, you would not have ever had "Goodfellas" or any of the entertaining gangster films that followed in the wake of the landmark 1972 film. In summation, while "The Godfather" is deservedly considered a landmark film within American Cinema, I still have to consider "Goodfellas" the superior film when making a decision about which is the best film about American Organized Crime. Reason for my opinion is that "The Godfather, " and it's two sequels, it ultimately a saga about an intensely dysfunctional American family that coincidentally happened to be involved within American Organized Crime. "Goodfellas, " a mostly factual story that is defiantly about American gangsters which is also told in an epic fashion, is strictly about two things. They are the New York City-based, American Organized Criminal universe as seen from the street-level perspective of a well-placed "worker ant-type, " Mob Family associate of Italian-Irish ancestry named Henry Hill. Number two, "Goodfellas" is about the compulsively amoral need to possess: 1.) Easily Earned and Ridiculously Abundant Money; 2.) Gilded Possessions; 3.) Cheaply Obtained Sexual Conquests; 4.) Plush Lifestyle; and 5.) Violently Imposed, Criminal Power. These are five seemingly meaningful things that beguilingly enticed the youthful Henry Hill and, still to this day, a plethora of adolescent boys just like him the world over to casually leave behind the peaceably humane world of Modestly Human Propriety in order to cross over to the orgiastically wealthy world of Flamboyantly Professional Crime, This world is indisputably a place that can be best described as Humanity's initially lucrative, but ultimately hellish, evil side. But, if you still need ironclad proof of that final assertion, by all means please watch the progression of Henry Hill's "Goodfellas" character from the glorious heights of pleasantly rarefied, near-affluence to the debased depths of narcotics-induced, paranoid wretchedness in all of its clinically-described entirety!

[jasonbourne]

That picture is not Billy Bats. Its a Philly gangster named Pat The Cat Spirito

[billieaustin]

Always happy to see your videos 😊 Great review as always ❤️🎥

[jonplukehughes]

I am fascinated by Jimmy Burke the true power in that Goodfellas trio